Your Eyes Can Be So Cruel

[Based off of A.C.'s 'Labyrinth']

Chapter 2.

I walked into Sarah's perfectly clean room. I had never seen any other room that was as tidy as hers. Every book, every toy, every little thing had to be in its appointed place. Sarah was standing in the middle of the room, sniffling, her eyes red. I walked around to study her. When her eyes weren't red, they would be a beautiful light green that easily matched her long brown hair. She was wearing a cream colored shirt with full sleeves, a brocaded waistcoat loosely over the shirt, blue jeans, and a leather belt.

'Why would Jareth want to watch this girl? What's so special about her?'

Sarah wiped her eyes and sat down at her dressing table. The table was covered with photos of a woman and magazine and newspaper clippings. Sarah stood up, walked over to her bedside table and picked up a music box. She turned it on and a familiar tune filled the room. I had heard it before but I could not place the name.

"It's easy to learn poetry and say it from memory…" Sarah said. "So, why can't I learn a speech from a stupid book?" She shook her head to move some stray hairs out of her face. "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City, to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom is as great. …" She stopped and kicked the bed. I walked around her and sat on her bed. Sitting there, legs crossed, leaning back, I said

"Can't even remember a simple line, how pathetic." I loved teasing her, knowing full well she couldn't hear or see me. Sarah walked back over to the dressing table and sat down, pulling out a tube of lipstick from the drawer. With her free hand she grabbed a plastic crown and stuck it on her head. She put a little lipstick on her lips and rolled them together, while I rolled my eyes.

"Through dangers untold…" I looked over as a knock came at the door.

"Sarah? Can I talk to you?"

"There's nothing to talk about!" I laughed to myself as I stretched out my legs and laid backwards. Sarah's parents try to hard to understand her. It was very entertaining. "You better hurry if you want to make the show." I heard her father sigh.

"Toby's had his supper and he's in bed now, if you could just make sure he goes to sleep alright, we'll be back around midnight." Her father's footsteps faded down the hallway. I stood up and walked around Sarah's room. Picking up a little trinket or stuffed animal to look at it and then putting it back somewhere else.

"You really wanted to talk to me didn't you?" Sarah said, sounding close to tears, again. "Practically broke down the door!" She grabbed a tissue to rub the lipstick of her mouth and jumped onto her bed.

"Lancelot…" She said, sitting up. I raised my eyebrows.

'Please tell me she isn't going to flip out over a stuffed animal…'

"Lancelot!" Sarah repeated as she ran out of the room. "I hate you!" I followed her out of the room and into the one across the hallway. I sat on the bed in that room in silence as Sarah talked to her brother. I was absolutely amazed. Her story was about Jareth, my Jareth; but the part she added about a 'young girl' was absolute rubbish.

"Once upon a time there was a beautiful young woman whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby."

* "Listen!" I heard a goblin say.*

I rolled my eyes. Most of us humans were able to hear goblins only if Jareth said so, which was often. It got frightfully annoying at times. Fortunately, I could turn it on and off as I pleased. So I switched my 'goblin vision' to one eye so I could still see what the goblins were doing.

*All the goblins stirred sleepily. I saw

as each goblin, one by one, opened their eyes.*

"The baby was a spoiled child," Sarah continued. "who wanted everything for himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew was that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and given her certain powers."

*All the goblins in the castle had their eyes wide

open, listening intently.*

'Who does this girl think she is?' I thought. The thunder and lightening from the storm raged outside the window. I stared at it, still listening as Sarah continued her story.

"One night, when baby had been particularly cruel to her, the girl called on the goblins for help. 'Say your right words.' The goblins said. 'and we'll take the baby to the Goblin City, and you will be free." I couldn't believe it. Why in the world would Jareth fall for this stupid, childish, little girl? I shook my head in disbelief. "But the girl knew, that the King of the Goblins would keep the baby forever and ever, and turn it into a goblin."

"Oh no, just stop there!" I stood up off the bed and looked Sarah straight in the eye. "You are stupid and childish. Fairytales aren't real. Jareth would never love someone like you. Why don't you just grow up!"

"Elizabeth." The voice was calm and I knew, even without looking, who it was. I lowered my head, turned around, and sunk to my knees in respect for my master.

"Yes?"

"Why do you insist on yelling at the girl, when you know perfectly well that she can not hear or see you?"

"I…uh…don't know, your majesty. It just seems to come out on its own. Forgive me." I looked up to see him nod and walk around me to look at Sarah, who was standing in the doorway.

"I wish the goblins would come and take you away," She turned off the light. "right now."

"Well!" Jareth said, clapping his hands together. "You heard her! Take the baby to my castle at once!" Toby let out one last, high-pitched cry, and then all was silent.

"Toby?..." Sarah had walked back into the room. Her eyes were full of fear. She started to walk closer to Toby's crib. Jareth watched her intently, his eyes never leaving hers. Sarah flipped the light switch, but nothing happened. "Toby, are you alright?" She took a step closer to the crib. "Why aren't you crying?" I rocked Toby gently in my arms.

"Forget her…" I said sweetly. "Forget everything."

Toby's eyes closed sleepily and I looked to Jareth, who nodded. I disappeared with Toby, taking him to Jareth's castle where I laid his sleeping form on Jareth's throne. I smiled at him and went back to stand at my place beside Jareth, still invisible to Sarah. Sarah could see him and she was staring at him. Her eyes wandered over him, over his cream colored shirt that was open at the front, loose at the sleeves, and silk cuffs at the wrist. His tight, black waistcoat that he wore over the shirt, his black boots over grey tights and the black gloves on his hands.

"You're him, aren't you? You're the Goblin King."

He bowed.

"Jareth."

Well, there's the end of part 2. Long road trips definitely give me the chance to write out Elizabeth's POV of the story. Which I think is pretty interesting :] I'm also working on drawing a picture of what E looks like {I draw my own anime...} and I'll try to add Jareth in, I think I'll do a little foreshadowing with the picture *evil grin* but you never know~ So please rate and review :] I'd love to see what people think of this.

Thank you so much to Saorlas of House Issoelne for being my first review :] This second chapter is dedicated to you.